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   From: this@ddress.is.invalid   
      
   JJ  wrote:   
   > On Sat, 7 Feb 2026 13:39:27 +0100, Herbert Kleebauer wrote:   
   > >   
   > > Good joke. The usenet is nearly completely binary only in these days.   
   >   
   > Usenet message is based on email message standard, and email was intended   
   > for text only. Initially.   
   >   
   > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet#Binary_content   
   >   
   > But technology evolve. I think it all started when MIME was created (in   
   > early 90s) and allow messages to be delivered in full 8-bit glory instead of   
   > just 7-bit. [*]   
      
     As others have mentioned, binary content on Usenet/NetNews precedes   
   MIME by quite a long time. At first, uuencode was used, which works for   
   a 7-bit data path.   
      
     For example the DOS binary of uudecode.com was transmitted as a *text*   
   file to overcome the Catch-22 problem of the recipient not (yet)   
   having uudecode.com needed to decode the uuencode-d binaries [1].   
      
   [...]   
      
   [1] The (59KB) 'CBIP Starter's Kit' posted to comp.binaries.ibm.pc   
   contained:   
   1) Instructions   
   2) Text source for UUDECODE   
   3) UNZIP, ZIP file extractor, in UUENCODE form   
   "All you need is a file editor."   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)